A Scots family’s dreams came true at the weekend when they spent the night in a Lego house.

The Woollacotts won a competition to sleep in a building made from more than 25million of the multi-coloured bricks.

The house, in Denmark, is used for children’s play areas but was converted into a hotel room.

The family, from Johnshaven, Aberdeenshire, beat more than 24,000 entrants worldwide in the AirBnB competition by answering the question: “If you had an unlimited supply of Lego bricks, what would you build?”

The Woollacotts lived the dream of children from around the world as they spent the night in the house made from 25 million Lego bricks (Image: Hope & Glory)

Heather looks forward to a good night's sleep - tucked up underneath a waterfall of almost two million bricks (Image: Hope & Glory)

And the family’s answers charmed the judges so much that they walked away with the top prize.

They decided to build a “life-size Squishy Noodle takeaway attached to the International Space Station”.

Mum Susan, 43 – whose daughters Izzy, five, and Heather, seven, came up with the winning entry – described their amazing stay.

Heather stands on the steps to the Lego House after, along with her sister, she won the chance to spend the night in the brick palace (Image: Hope & Glory)

She said: “It really was a once-in-a-lifetime trip. It has inspired the girls to have bigger dreams, and to just try things because it might work out even better than you expected.”

The family were given “Lego-proof” shoes to survive walking around the 12,000-square metre house and slept beneath a 6m high Lego waterfall.

Susan said the highlight of the trip was meeting two of the world’s leading Lego builders.

She said: “For Lego fans it was the equivalent of a young footballer playing keepy-uppy with Ronaldo. It wasn’t just the speed with which they built things, their imagination was on a different level.”